UNFI Named One of 20 Top Sustainable Stocks

June 24, 2009: SustainableBusiness.com today announced its 2009 Sustainable Business 20 (SB20) List of the world's top sustainable stocks, naming UNFI to the list.  UNFI has been on the SB20 list for six of the past eight years.

The 8th Annual SB20 List consists of 20 public companies that are leading the way to a sustainable economy. The list is presented in the Progressive Investor newsletter, published by SustainableBusiness.com, which tracks and analyzes green stocks.  To choose the 20 companies, SustainableBusiness.com works with a group of judges, who are among the most respected green stock analysts in the world.

"Our goal is to create a list that showcases public companies that, even over the past most difficult year, have made substantial progress in either greening their internal operations or growing a business based on an important green technology," says Rona Fried, Ph.D., SustainableBusiness.com CEO and Editor of Progressive Investor.

Every company on the 2009 SB20 List has continued to grow their business during the recession, dominating their particular industry niche. Corporate pioneers have continued innovating on the green side despite the recession, an aspect which is increasingly viewed as a sign of management excellence and stronger financial performance. 

For more information about the SB20, visit  http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/progressiveinvestor.sb20p1